Portrait of a Gentleman
By Arthur Devis
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 'Art Devis/fe 1755' lower left Image size: 29 1/2 x 24 1/4 inches (75 x 62 cm) Original ornate gilt wood frame Provenance: Ian Douglas Leonard Cochra...
Canvas, Oil
$2,500
H 22 in W 30 in D 0.75 in
Mid-Century Modern Man - Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtle and moody portrait of a Pensive man by Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2002). The sitter in the portrait is a middle-aged man looking slightly downwards, wearing a collared shirt. This piece is completed in a tan and green palette, creating a somber feeling. Of particular note are the confident, thick brushstrokes - each one is well-placed in the modernist style. Similar in some ways to Picasso's portraits. Signed "Joan Tidwell" on verso Unframed. Canvas size: 30"H x 22"W oan Gay Tidwell (American, 1930-2002) was born and raised in Hollywood, CA, where she had some success as a child actor. Later, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Washington with a Master's Degree in English Literature and Drama. Tidwell moved to the Bay...
Canvas, Oil
$6,015
H 25.2 in W 22.05 in D 3.15 in
Portrait of a Shepherd dog, oil painting on canvas early 20th c.
Located in Gavere, BE
Portrait of a Shepherd dog, oil painting on canvas early 20th c. Extra info about the painting : Title: Portrait of a Shepherd dog Materials : oil on canvas Signature: bottom le...
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Female Nude
Located in Astoria, NY
Leo Feldman (American, XX), Portrait of a Female Nude Figure, Oil on Canvas, signed on top edge and verso, unframed. 30" H x 24" W. Provenance: From the Allen Tucker Memorial Colle...
Oil, Canvas
$9,500
H 31.5 in W 26.25 in D 1.5 in
“Guitar Player in Recife, Brazil, 1886” Pernambuco Brazilian Coast Oil Signed
Located in Yardley, PA
“Guitar Player in Recife, Brazil, 1886” by Ferdinand Piereck (1844-1925) An extremely rare 19th century painting of a Brazilian guitarist by Austrian-Brazilian artist Ferdinand Pier...
Canvas, Oil
$4,250
H 60 in W 48 in D 1 in
Light Around - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Fashion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Adewuyi Theophi...
Canvas, Oil
$2,280Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 20 in D 1 in
Pair of Mid Century Blocking Portrait Study, Mid Century Portrait of a Woman
By Gordon Cook
Located in Soquel, CA
Blocking Study pair #1 and #2, portrait of a blonde woman, by Gordon Cook (American, 1927-1985). Circa 1960. Signed on verso "G. Cook (3) #1. unframed. Image size: 24"H x 20"W each. Bay area estate sale find. Gordon Cook was born in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington where he received his B.F.A in 1950. Cook then went on to study fundamentals and life drawing at The American Academy of Art* in Chicago. The same year he studied intaglio* printmaking with Vera Berdich at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago*. He took graduate courses and continued studying intaglio printmaking under artist Mauricio Lasansky at the State University of Iowa. In 1951, Cook moved to San Francisco. Soon after his works received the journeyman's card in International Typographical Union, Local 21. He began exhibiting his prints, drawings, and paintings at the Porpoise Gallery in San Francisco. Four years later, Cook became a charter member of the Bay Printmakers Society and exhibited in their annual exhibitions at the Oakland Art Museum for the next five years. His etchings portrayed mainly San Francisco landscapes such as the Golden Gate Park, Diamond Heights, and Lake Merced as well as flowers, especially roses. He participated in his first weekly drawing group with artist Alvin Light, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, and William H. Brown. Cook also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute*. His etchings where exhibited in a one-man exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. At this point Cook returned to painting. Moving to Rio Vista...
Canvas, Oil
$723
H 11.82 in W 11.82 in D 1.58 in
Small Scale Photorealistic Figurative Oil Painting by Contemporary Artist
By Raminta S. R. Mint
Located in Vilnius, Vilniaus apskr.
Raminta S.R. Mint, a young and emerging artist, challenges traditional representations of the body, positioning it as a reflection of contemporary society’s fixation on physicality a...
Paint, Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint
$2,850
H 36 in W 36 in D 1 in
Frontiers of Fortitude - 21st Century Contemporary Figurative, People, Fashion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Adewuyi Theophi...
Canvas, Oil
$2,100
H 28 in W 28 in D 1 in
Self-Meditation (Profile View) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Woman
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique; this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$700Sale Price|20% Off
H 14 in W 10.75 in D 1 in
Pair of Vintage Native American Portraits
Located in Soquel, CA
Pair of two vintage portraits of Native American figures, one older and one younger, in profile with braids and headdresses by Victor S. ...
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Portrait of a Doctor with a Microscope.
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of a Doctor with a Microscope Artist: Eduardo Gordigiani (Italy, 1866-1961) Date: Approximately 1940 Medium: Oil on canvas Signature: Signed in the upper right corner Dimens...
Oil, Canvas
Fauvist Portrait of Ogden
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous fauvist portrait of man, in a vivd and expressive colorful palette, titled "Ogden" by Henri O’Connor (American, b. 1921), 1996. Signed and dated lower right corner and on verso. Condition: Professionally cleaned and restored three tears and inpainting. Presented in black painted wood frame. Image size: 16"H x 20"W. Framed size: 21.75"H x 17.75"W. Henri O’Connor, the son of an American father and a French mother was born in 1921 and grew up in Nantes, France. He attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Nantes and in the late 1930s, studied at the Beaux Arts, the Atelier de la Grande Chaumiere and the Academie de l’Arts et Publicite in Paris “He was basically one degree removed from all of the great masters of the turn of the century,” David Deitch, a freelance art curator in New York, says of O’Connor’s education. “His teachers were associates of Matisse, Derain — all of the big players at the time.” The curator says that the influences of O’Connor’s teachers, which reflect the Fauvist style in vogue at the time, is apparent in his paintings, particularly some of his later work. O’Connor and his parents and siblings left Europe at the beginning of World War II and moved to the United States, eventually settling in Sacramento, where O’Connor’s father had relatives. O’Connor was offered a job teaching art at the Sacramento Art...
Canvas, Oil
18th century oil capriccio of Rome
By Arthur Devis
Located in London, GB
Collections: Probably Anthony Devis, half-brother of Arthur Devis; Ellin Devis, Arthur Devis’s daughter, a gift from the above; Ellin Devis Marris, adopted daughter of the above, by bequest in 1820; Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd (as by Panini); Private collection, UK, 1987; The Leger Galleries, 1987; The Hon. Simon Sainsbury, acquired from the above in 1987; Sainsbury sale, Christie’s, 18th June 2008, lot 205 [the literature cited incorrectly in Christie’s catalogue entry applies to the painting listed by D’Oench (1979) as no. 272]; Private collection, 2013. Literature: Ellen Gates D’Oench, Arthur Devis (1712-1787); Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece, A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1979, cat. no. 272. Signed and dated ADevis 1736, lower centre Framed dimensions: 31.5 x 36 inches Arthur Devis is best known as a master of conversation pieces and full-length portraits in small scale, described by Sacheverell Sitwell as ‘the perfect small master of the school.’ His work as a painter of landscapes and architectural capriccios is less well known. This previously unpublished ruinscape, made in the manner Giovanni Paolo Panini, sheds important light on his early career and crucially, his working methods. Signed and dated 1736, Devis evidently retained an affection for the painting, incorporating it into at least two of his interior conversation pieces. This catalogue entry contains important new information on Devis’s early career and art training in the north-west of Britain in the 1730s, as well as reproducing extracts from the unpublished will of Devis’s daughter. Born in Preston, Lancashire in 1712 Devis’s early training took place in the north-west where he worked with the Flemish painter Peter Tillemans. Tillemans seems to have spent time at Knowsley Hall in Lancashire in 1728-9, completing a number of spectacular landscapes depicting the house, park and James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby’s racecourse. It is clear from the surviving correspondence of the 10th Earl that Knowsley, with its substantial collection of old master paintings, became an important site for artists in the region. We know at least one other of Tillemans’s pupils, one Edward Coppock, stayed at Knowsley learning to draw, and in 1736 George Stubbs arrived to copy paintings, supervised by his master, Hamlet Winstanley. According to Stubbs’s earliest biographer, Ozias Humphry, the first picture he attempted to copy at Knowsley was a ruinscape by Giovanni Paolo Panini. It is highly suggestive that at the same date Devis was also completing a work strongly influenced by the Italian painter Panini. Further investigation reveals that the present painting, which is not a copy of any existing Panini design, but is in fact a composition directly derived from a drawing by Hamlet Winstanley and contained in a sketchbook now in the Warrington Museum and Art Gallery. Winstanley had visited Italy in 1723–1725 and filled a sketchbook with topographical landscape drawings and subsequently produced a number of capriccio studies derived from these accurate drawings. One such sheet depicts the Castel Sant’Angelo behind a classical church and campanile identical to the buildings on the right hand side of Devis’s painting. Devis’s use of such an idiosyncratic set of structures seems certain to have derived from Winstanley’s drawing adding further to the supposition that Devis trained at Knowsley and continued to have contact there throughout his early years in Preston. Turning to the painting itself, it appears to be a conventional digest of classic Roman monuments, arranged to form a fanciful ruinscape. On the far left of the composition are the three columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux from the Forum in Rome; in the left foreground is the remains of a torso of Venus; prominently in the background is Trajan’s Column and behind it the dome of Santa Maria di Loreto; to the right a profile of the Capitoline and on the far right the group of buildings borrowed from Winstanley’s drawing. Standing amongst the ruins are a group of figures, in vaguely classical costume, in discussion. The works of Giovanni Paolo Panini were extremely fashionable amongst British collectors from the mid-1730s onwards, Devis’s painting and more importantly his conduit, in the form of Winstanley’s Italian drawings, were a very early instance of British artists imitating this format. In the following generation countless British painters would replicate Panini’s designs as decorative additions to interiors as new Palladian designs demanded painted overmantels and overdoors, but Devis’s signed and dated composition was absolutely at the forefront of this fashion. Given the squareish format of the present painting it seems likely that it was designed as an overdoor. This is confirmed by Devis’s inclusion of the present composition in at least two of his earliest conversation pieces. The profile of the three columns from the Temple of Castor and Pollux, Venus’s torso...
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Mrs Bates as a shepherdess, seated in a landscape
By Arthur Devis
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Arthur Devis (1712-1787) Portrait of Mrs Bates as a shepherdess, seated, in a blue dress Oil on canvas Signed lower centre canvas size 24 x 16 1/2 in frame size 28 x 21 in Provenanc...
Canvas, Oil